●The second edition of Developing Skills expands with full color graphics, newly revised, topically based listening passages, and enhanced listening activities. This series is suitable for both the classroom and self study. Throughout the series, Developing Listening Skills progresses from easy to more challenging exercises in order to help facilitate listening comprehension. The exercises combine listening with reading, speaking, and writing tasks to reinforce retention of high-frequency vocabulary and phrases. Features ˙Authentic dialogs ˙Full-color illustrations and photographs aid comprehension ˙Supplemental listening activities related to the topics ˙Listening quizzes and unit exams to check learning progress ˙Real world listening practice, featuring interesting and useful topics ˙Discussion questions to develop student’s speaking and listening abilities ˙Separate transcripts answer key ˙Extra dictation activities available online